Coyotedancer

My favorite soloists are Stalkers, Scraps and Sentinels... But you can have some good fun with a Mastermind, too.

I'm most often a flier... It's not the fastest of the travel powers, but it's the most useful under the most circumstances. That said, the Super Jump/Super Speed combo is just straight-up great fun... *IF* you're a good driver. Otherwise? You'll end up caught on every bridge, bus stop and power-line in the city. 😝

I've had three real loves across my collection of characters here, over on Paragon and back in the Live days... I could keep a character list to those three, but I wouldn't want to go lower than that. I'd end up missing someone. Those three are a Dual Blade/Willpower/Mu Mastery Stalker with a perma-summoned Adept companion (Grey Kestrel and Red Cardinal, who I do tend to think of as a pair, rather than just as Kes on her own-), a Darkity/Dark/Dark Defender (Nemissary. My first and favorite Death Mage, who was built to live life on the front line-) and a Willpower/Dual Blade Tank (Palrah... More a "heavy scrap" than a real tank, but still great fun to play-) I'd pretty seriously miss my Broadsword/Bio Brute (Semnai) and my Dark/WP Sentinel (Shonokin) if I couldn't keep them, too... But I'm not quite as attached to them as I am to the first trio. I have a small case of altitis, I guess. But it's a pretty modest one. 😝

A lot of us who play on the red-side really do seem to be either solos, or static duo/trio small team players, by choice. It's been that way since the Live days, honestly. It always took twice as long to get together a SF team back on Liberty as it took to pull people into a TF, even among the Ouphs and Badgers. And... yeah. I'm "part of the problem", there. I spend a fair bit of time on the villain side, but exclusively solo/duo. I never join larger teams or leagues, because I feel like soloing or running with no more than one or two other people is just more fun on that side of the game world than being part of a crazy murderball.

Nope. I still wouldn't PvP in this game. Sorry, but I suspect you'll get that same answer from a lot of folks here, "dirty casuals" or otherwise.

You'll get a lot of pictures of boxes that claim to have cats in them.

I'm working all day tomorrow, alas. I'll try to jump on tomorrow afternoon (Pacific time-) when I get home, if Real Life lets me. XP

Don't be afraid to tinker around with your graphics settings under the Options menu in-game. Turn on Ultra Mode if you haven't, and play with the shadows, the water and the model detail settings. The game will never look like a "modern" one, but it's aged pretty well with the settings cranked up.

My Oranbegans are all over on Ev... "Yes," they say, "Come and join us, fellow Magic folk. We promise not to make off with your bodies or sacrifice you to any demons. We have plenty of Arachnos Mu for that." 😎

VMaps is sort of an overlay type of add-on that puts useful icons on your mini-map, like the locations of badges (Even if you're not a badge-collector, you can use badge names as character titles, which is fun. My white-winged tank is wearing "Guardian Angel", for instance-) and what goons of what level spawn in particular neighborhoods. It's a useful mod to install.

The co-op thing is the concern... Shifty red-siders can't all get to PI. How about moving them to Kallisti?

We've all been there with something... Just like we've all gotten caught on a bus stop while super-speeding across Steel Canyon. 😝

In celebration of our getting a lot of new folks in-game, I did a clean-up of unused character ideas and freed up a few fun ones... Winging It BR0bot Lady Autumn Never Mind ... are all up for grabs. Somebody go do something fun with them! 😎

We have a moose! That makes me grin. ^_^

Welcome to the City, Sume. 😎 Tanks are Love. Smashy, tough love which ought to be able to handle Praetoria pretty well, even if you find yourself having to solo sometimes. (Which you may, since fewer people start and play through the Going Rogue starting areas, even on Excelsior.) The hero starting areas that you'll see most of us calling "Blue Side" are the most popular. The "Red SIde" is the villain half of the game, and is somewhat less popular, but still has enough people to usually find a team. The Going Rogue starting zones, "Gold Side", were added to the game later in its commercial period and are the least populated starting area. It can be a little tough for teaming, especially if you aren't playing during peak hours. Praetoria can absolutely be soloed, though, and doing the arcs on your own gives you the chance to read all of the mission text and really get a feel for the place, which is an advantage. Teams can make doing that difficult.

<_< >_> BOOOOOOOOOOGGGGGEEEER! (I just really, really made myself look old with that reference, didn't I?)

I'm all about the spikey Oranbegan bits, for... probably obvious reasons. I'm also fond of all of the various bits that go into my Nova Primeva characters' "Temple Guard" uniforms...

As if our lives aren't already filled with enough adverts to choke a proverbial brontosaurus...

Well done, gang. 👍

If I get something into the mid- or late-30's and just don't find it fun to play, the odds are good that I'll strip out all of the toys I gave the character and then delete it. And then reuse the costume and general character idea with different power sets. I've gotten to be pretty ruthless about that over the years. I'm not keeping a character that isn't fun for me to play.

Don't forget the "Eggfinder" lounge in Faultlike.

How to tell everyone "I've never spent six months of my life building an elaborate base" WITHOUT just coming out and saying so.... 😄 While it's absolutely technically true that even the most complex base COULD be rebuilt, it's not exactly a small undertaking and definitely not something to just casually toss out there like it would be some easy weekend project. Replicating some of the things people have built would be more like reconstructing Notre-Dame than knocking out a backyard shed. That alone would make mergers a NO WAY vote for me.

Blue Steel is secretly Godzilla? Well, every comic book type is allowed to have an improbable secret identity, I guess. But that one seems a little sketchier than usual. I mean, you're just not gonna be able to hide that with a pair of glasses.

That mechanic exists to be annoying. Especially given that the goons all get to jet off at top speed to the far side of nowhere while... players.... are... stuck... moving.... like.... snails... trapped... in... glue... traps... for... about... a... dog's.... age... unable to chase them down effectively. (No. Not all of us have ranged attacks, buster.) I say tone down the "Run Away! Run Away!" Or either ditch the speed suppression on players, or make the goon's subject to it just like we are. I'm tired of being in Sloth-mode while watching wolves and wing raiders and drones and Longbow Eagles and every second random Freak taking off like proverbial bats out of the Bad Place. And don't tell me that it adds "challenge". Extra annoyance isn't challenge. It's just annoyance. <_<

I can only speak for myself, but I've barely had ten spare minutes in a row together since early in October.... The period between Halloween and New Years is CrazyBusyLikeWhoa time in the food bank world. (Seriously. We get between half and two-thirds of our TOTAL annual material donations from food drives that happen around the holidays. That puts sorting crews like mine into serious over-time mode just to keep up and distribute everything-) Put the usual holiday social obligations, gift searching and all that into the mix, too, and there's just not a lot left for gaming. Or much of anything else. With luck, things will slow down some in January and we... the busy, the time-constrained, the absent due to Real Life... will have time to wander back into the City again.